Do not knock on the devil’s door‚ for he is bound to answer. Unfortunately this is exactly what happens to Connie‚ the main character in the short-story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates. In the story‚ fifteen year old Connie is like any other teenage girl. She is vain‚ unkind to her parents‚ and desperate to grow up. Connie makes rebellious decisions such as sneaking across the highway to a drive-in restaurant for older kids‚ experimenting with sex‚ and lying
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Connie in “Where are you going‚ Where have you been”‚ has a lot of underlying mental issues. Joyce Carol Oates created the perfect character to receive psychoanalytic criticism. The relationships Connie forms with her family‚ friends‚ and outsiders are all affected by Connie’s issues which come to consume her future. One of Connie’s biggest faults was the recognition of her beauty. She “knew she was pretty and that was everything” (Oates 1). This constant checking of herself in mirrors to make
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In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates there is bad parenting and it costs Connie at the end. Throughout the entire story there is little or no parenting‚ or sometimes there is a little parenting but it is not very good parenting. For example‚ “their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home‚ he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper he went to bed. He didn’t bother talking much to them” (Oates 1). So even
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Music has always been a very important part of my life. As a child‚ I was mesmerized by Disney’s Fantasia 2000 and watched the Disney sing-a-longs over and over. I began playing piano at a young age‚ and in middle school added more instruments to my list‚ such as flute‚ saxophone‚ and ukulele. I have had many opportunities to perform both solos and ensemble performances‚ but none of them have impacted me as much as my interactions with an elderly man named Mr. Roland Goff‚ or as we called him in
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I’ve seen a lot of resumes that would have been better off without an objective statement. These days‚ you don’t need to include an objective on your resume‚ but some people still do. Be warned: there are two major ways to screw up an objective statement: Not matching your application to the position you’ve applied to or Writing an objective so painfully bland that it could apply to virtually anything Let’s discuss some examples. Objectives that have nothing to do with the job Although
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the woman. In Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing‚ the constraints of oppression were alive in her thoughts. Olsen’s fa’ade was being a housewife‚ she would have rather had other choices in her life and wanted more for her daughter as is told by the last quote in the story: In summary‚ all three women had no choice in their lives or they chose not to have a choice but to follow society’s way of thinking. "It was the only way we could be together‚ the only way I could hold a job" (Olsen 225). They did what
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Throughout history there have been a certain that effect not only the certain people or region‚ but the rest of the world. Those two events were French Revolution and Enlightenment. French Revolution ‚ this calls for freedom and equality for the French people later effected not only France or Europe‚ but the rest of the world. The Enlightenment‚ changing live between people and their government. The Enlightenment thinkers‚ Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Hobbes believed
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Business systems that have been hacked Student’s name: Professor’s name: Course title: [Pick the date] Introduction The concept of technological environment is considered to be the most dramatic force in today’s time‚ which has been shaping our destinies in a continuous fashion. Technology has released wonders in all the fields possible and has greatly been affecting mankind‚ whether be it robotics‚ medical science‚ miniature electronics or businesses engaged in the online market
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Wendy Goff discusses the effects of cyber bullying in relations to a school’s responsibility of care. Goff examines the impact of cyber bullying through an increasingly common situation‚ it becomes apparent that the strategies for Australian schools in maintaining their duty of care may be unclear and uncommunicated. In Australia the legal frameworks regarding bullying are diverse‚ this is because of the federal nature of law‚ this diversity is accentuated from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Goff discusses
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Death of a Hired Man – Robert Frost Introduction and Context Published in 1915‚ ‘Death of a Hired Man’ deals with death‚ much like other Frost poems such as ‘Home Burial’. In fact‚ these two poems share certain similarities‚ in that they are both dramatic dialogues between a husband and wife‚ allowing their thoughts and characteristic to be portrayed clearly to the reader. Set on a farm‚ Frost writes the poem displaying the gendered stereotypes of men and women of the time‚ and how they act towards
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